Comment by IlikeKitties

2 days ago

Just Pirate stuff on Annas Archive. Jumping through these ridiculous hoops for less than a floppy disk of data is just a humiliation ritual.

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kelnos  2 days ago

Authors should get paid for their work, though. Publishers, too, to be honest (they also do a lot of work and usually run on thin margins).

Waiting in line in a library app is annoying, but the waiting signals demand, which drives the library to buy more copies to circulate.

  • komali2  2 days ago

    If you care about the author, navigate to their website and buy a book directly from them, or a tshirt or something. Then they'll actually get paid, unlike from a library loan, or the scraps that Amazon gives them (unless the author depends on Amazon's print on demand for all prints of their books in which case, I guess buy it from Amazon).

    • ethagnawl  1 day ago

      Also consider buying from bookshop.org and supporting a small bookstore in addition to the author.

    • shrubby  2 days ago

      Yup.

      In order for the writer not to starve, we must bypass the zillionaires.

      Send pennies directly to the artist and work for a just society.

      I'd prefer a complete bypass of the enshittified economy. Replaced with a system that doesn't trust that people with absolute power won't turn into narcissist cunts.

      We've seen this waterfall of a system in communism, capitalism and more recently technofeodalism so one would think the logical solution would be to replace it with a grassroots up system.

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  • IlikeKitties  2 days ago

    > Waiting in line in a library app is annoying, but the waiting signals demand, which drives the library to buy more copies to circulate.

    This is not true for digital libraries. They do not "buy more copies" to circulate. They don't physically send you an USB Stick with a copy of the book and you send that back without making a copy. They can send everyone "in line" as many copies as they want. Whats the size of an ebook these days? 1MB? How many trillion copies could you make in a day?

    You have to wait in line to hopefully someday maybe be allowed to read a copy of a book while meta torrents a petabyte of books for their AI usage. This is nothing but a humiliation ritual.